Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 2 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 3 | Swindon made it count too . |
| 4 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 5 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 6 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 7 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 8 | It was yet another dig , and again Shiona felt it bruise her . |
| 9 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 10 | English department did it last term . |
| 11 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 12 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 13 | And how many bedrooms did it have ? |
| 14 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 15 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 16 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 17 | What effect did it have on his private life ? |
| 18 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 19 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 20 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 21 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 22 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 23 | Mrs Geary made it sound a quite unorthodox request . |
| 24 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 25 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 26 | But only a small group of teachers and parents saw it get underway . |
| 27 | A miasma of despair rose from the cluster of black Workshops and Fenella felt it billow out and engulf them in its sick , cold desolation . |
| 28 | Chopra felt it happen . |
| 29 | Only in winter did it snap their necks to gorge upon their warm sap . |
| 30 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |